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Working Parents: Possibly a more common problem is the child who isn't interested. Here teachers - and parents - will be on familiar territory. In fact, though, where a school PACT scheme is working parents well, children tend to be swept along in the general enthusiasm, and the child who really does not want to read with his or her parents, at least occasionally, is a rarity. Where a child continues to be reluctant, the responses of parents and teachers will be dependent upon their knowledge of the individual child and the particular circumstances but this time at least they will have each other for support. Bear in mind also that there may be times (for instance, among top juniors) when it is quite appropriate to rebel against the idea of working parents closely with one's parents. Children who feel like this often find it acceptable, though, to have their parents read the same book separately and talk about it afterwards.
What these parents had told them seemed finally to dispel the myth of working parents-class apathy over children's learning. Parents from all sections of the community were already working parents with their children, to an extent largely unsuspected by the children's schools, in all sorts of ways designed to promote die children's educational development, and especially meir reading and literacy. These parents were keen to do far more, and their main reasons for not doing more seemed to be diffidence about their own ability to help children in the right way and reticence in approaching schools and teachers to ask for professional advice.
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working parents together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
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